Bunko Party

I was in charge of Bunko in January.  Since everything is so drab outside after the Christmas decorations come down and the lights go off, I decided we needed to have a party.  I made photo props and we took pictures.  We had Turkey Burger sliders and party buffet for dinner.  And all the prizes were party related (cards, wrapping paper, gift bags, decorations, etc.)  As always, we had a lot of fun!

Melissa and Annie

Kristin and Jenni

Kristin's Crown Mask. Lol

Lacey

Pam and Julie

Pam and Julie

Kristin

Lacey, Allisha, Kristin, Jenni, Pam, Julie, Annie, Melissa

The whole Bunko gang (and Lindey)

/Danielle, Lacey, Allisha, Kristin, Jenni, Pam, Julie, Annie, Melissa

Me :)

Danielle and I with our Misplaced Moustaches

Dochia joined us for Bunko.  She had to get in on the photo props!

Dochia, the princess

Dochia

After everyone left, the girls wanted to have their pictures taken with the photo props.

Morgan, Mom and Lindey

Cute girls!

January 31, 2014

Bunko!

I was in charge of Bunko in February.  February was a busy month. (which one isn't! lol) Between deciding what I was going to do for prizes and working around Girls State Basketball (one of our friends is a coach), I decided to have it on February 23rd.  It was a crazy day because I also had piano group that day. I was out of Thursdays, so we just went with it.  (Huge shout out to my friend Kristin for giving up her time to help me prep dinner and take care of the kids so I could get things ready! You continue to be my angel. Thank you!! :))  I was pretty excited about my prizes.  I did something that hasn't been done in our group as of yet--quite the challenge since we've been doing bunko for four years now.  I did some of my favorite books!  It was so much fun!  I think everyone really liked it--at least I hope they did.  I also hope they enjoy reading some of my favorite finds! :)  They made me laugh saying that everyone needs to bring their book to Bunko next month so we can trade them around. :) Others didn't want to wait that long and asked for a list of all the books I picked.  I made everyone a bookmark to go with their book(s).  That was the fun part! :)  I made flowers out of book pages, and hooked them to ribbon and a charm of some sort on the end.  Love how they turned out!  They are all cute, but I was excited to end up with one of my favorites. (The light pink one with the rhinestones in the flower.)

Books I gave out were (in no particular order):

Beautiful Creatures & Beautiful Darkness, The Books of Bayern (The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets & Forest Born), Peter and the Star Catchers, Tuesdays With Morrie, Kringle, The Secret Journal of Brett Colton, Book of a Thousand Days, Princess Academy, A Girl Named Disaster, Shadow Spinner, Bloomability, and part of the Shadow Children Series (Among the Hidden, Among the Imposters, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons).  There were several others I had on my list that didn't make it here because of pricing or avaliability--I had to stick with our preset prize amounts. It was fun to whittle it down and get everything just right. I loved that some of my most favorites were in the $5.00 prizes. :) So glad I thought of doing books!

 Thanks for coming, eating, visiting, and laughing ladies!  I love our girls night out.


Lto R: Pam, Danielle, Kristin, Kristi, Me (Lindey), Melissa, Annie, Jenni, Taffee, and Lacey (Jett)
Not able to join in the fun: Julie, and Jessica--we missed you!



Bunko Oscars

Every December our little Bunko group gets together for couples Bunko.  We invite our husbands and everyone brings an appetizer to share and gifts to exchange.  It is always a lot of fun.  This year, Pam decided to take our gathering up a notch and put together the first annual Bunko Oscars.  We all got our "tickets" and invitations.  We all wore fancy clothes and got to walk the "red carpet" that started outside as we came into the elelmentary school where Bunko was held on December 2nd.  She even had her 5th grade son be the bouncer outside that took our tickets and held the door open for us.  We had our pictures taken by the "papparazzi", and once we made it in the door, her four year old met us with an appetizer platter. :) She did a fantastic job!  It was so fun!

Pam put together slides with the name of the award and the pictures of the nominees.  She has been collecting all our score sheets throughout the year so she could put these together.  She also put together a bunch of "stats" from the last four years that we've been playing Bunko together--I think my favorite stat was that there have been 10 babies born since we started playing. (I think that is the right number--correct me if I'm wrong ladies!)

Pam even made Bunko Oscar Awards for us with fancy feather skirts on. LOL  I won the award for Most Rounds Played in One Night. (We played four rounds when Bunko was held at my house rather than our usual three.) We also each got to read and announce a category. 

We were all waiting for eveyone to assemble to get our picture taken and Danielle tried to steal my award!  Rude! LOL (Not really, but it was funny.)

There were only 7 of the 12 of us in attendance.  We missed our other friends (Kristi, Jenni, Taffee, Julie, and Melissa)!  We had a wonderfully fancy evening that was so very fun.  I'm already looking forward to the 2nd Annual Bunko Oscars next December!

Pam, Kristen, Danielle, Me, Lacey, Jessica, and Annie



Bunko Baby

Had to post this picture of Lindey in her Bunko Baby outfit.  My Bunko friends did a baby shower for me and one of our other bunko friends instead of prizes for everyone the month of April. Danielle and I were due around the same time and had our babies two weeks apart.  Jenni made these little outfits for our baby girls since they would be coming to Bunko for the first while. :)  Lindey only got to wear hers once since I missed a time or two.  But, isn't that a fun idea? Love it! :)

Bunko!

It was my turn to host Bunko.  I had it at our house on Friday night.  I made Baked Potato Chowder for dinner (so yummy!!) with Blackberry salad and French bread.  We had a lot of fun and lots of laughter.  For prizes I did outdoor stuff, either to decorate your yard or lawn games to play with your kids.  It was great! :)Thanks for a fun evening ladies!